“I'm sure there were people who were disappointed that I got slimmer, but as one gets older one does often get a bit thinner. There was no great mystery: I had some puppy fat and I lost it.”

English writer and former fashion model

Sophie Dahl is an English writer and former fashion model. She is known for her books and for turning her name into a presence across fiction, cookery, and television. Her first book, the novella The Man With The Dancing Eyes, appeared in 2003, followed by the novel Playing With The Grown-Ups in 2007. She later wrote Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights in 2009, which became the basis for the six-part BBC cooking series The Delicious Miss Dahl in 2010. Her second cookbook, From Season to Season, was published in 2011.